Follow this link to a previous posting of Nelson’s photos from the 2011 SXSW festival.

Brent Amaker and the Rodeo will tour Europe this year, as well as the U.S. Here’s a link to the band’s Web site.

Check out the band’s video of “Saddle Up,” directed by Jason Sievers, who created the video from existing tour photos. Each scene was built in Photoshop as an animated GIF, making the video jump and jive like an animated scrapbook. Watch it here.